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When the grandparent post said: > Fact checking organizations proved themselves wildly left-biased I think they implied that this bias also ran counter to obj
by bandofthehawk 2y ago
When the grandparent post said:
> Fact checking organizations proved themselves wildly left-biased
I think they implied that this bias also ran counter to objective reality. When someone calls out something that is objectively false, it's not usually considered bias.
- sunshowers 2y ago> I think they implied that this bias also ran counter to objective reality. But did it actually? > When someone calls out something that is objectively false, it's not usually considered bias. I wish what you were saying were true. In reality, motivated actors will call anything that shows them wrong biased. The whole point of having a scientific mindset is to try and ascertain what's true by building the best models one can. This often means a lot of inherent complexity, since the world is quite complex (map-territory relation). But humans prefer simpler models over more complex ones, which leads to bad outcomes.
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